Alabama’s older population – persons 60 years and older – numbers 769,880 according to
Census 2000, which is the most recent year for which U.S. Census Bureau data is available.
They represent 17.3 percent of Alabama’s total population...

The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) continues to confront four major problems, the first two of which were addressed by the Governor’s Task Force on Prison Crowding:
1. Prison crowding at medium or higher level security facilities;
2....